Table 3.

Place of death and presence of a physician at time of death in each facility

Place of death
	Conventional HCSCs	Enhanced HCSCs
	N = 77	N = 152
	n (%)	n (%)	p-value
Death at home	50 (64.9)	123 (80.9)	< 0.001
Death in hospital	24 (28.6)	14 (9.2)	< 0.001
Unknown	5 (6.5)	15 (9.9)	< 0.001
Presence of a physician at the time of in-home death
	conventional HCSCs	enhanced HCSCs
	N = 50	N = 123
	n (%)	n (%)	p-value
With the presence of physician at the time of death	39 (78.0)	122 (99.2)	< 0.001
Without the presence of physician at the time of death	11 (22.0)	1 (0.8)	< 0.001

We conducted χ2 test and Fisher’s exact test

Abbreviations: HCSCs Home care support clinics/hospitals